Rewilding: Lynx and Livestock in the UK.
Attacks by lynx on sheep, particularly lambs, are known from across Europe and it seems inevitable that lynx would kill sheep here in Scotland. It is important however to put this in perspective.
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L is for Lesser Spotted
Not only are they uncommon in much of England and Wales (and absent entirely from Scotland and Ireland), but they’re hard to find even where they do occur, being secretive birds that can range over large areas.
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Pet Trade Harming Lemur Conservation
The driving factors behind their decline include poaching for the bushmeat trade, a lack of conservation programmes and habitat destruction due to illegal logging, which is on the rise thanks to political instability and rising poverty.
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Mammals Cannot Evolve Fast Enough to Escape Extinction Crisis
Nature's defence mechanism, evolution, cannot keep up with the extermination of species by humans. If conservation efforts are not improved, so many mammal species will go extinct in the next five decades that nature will need 3-5 million years to recover.
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Scottish National Heritage: Funding Cuts and Conserving Conservation
There are so many organisations that rely on SNH funding to carry out the important conservation work that they do. For many of these charities, funding from SNH allows them to hire employees to carry out this work.
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Ensuring the Resilience of Seagrass Meadows
Learning to manage the habitats and biodiversity within our oceans and coasts is one of the greatest challenges of this century.
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